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Lesson ideas using Google
From search games to presentations on how to use Docs & Spreadsheets with your students, here you can find real-world examples of innovative ways that teachers and librarians are using Google tools to help students learn.
PC Hell - zomg there really is such a place
Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane with problems. Great site for pensioners with nothing better to do with their time. Fix a Ballmer's mistakes.
FORTUNE: Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
In the lucrative >$1,000 PC segment, in the first quarter of 2008, Apple's retail market share was 66%. This includes a 64% market share for laptops and a market share for desktops of 70%.
YouTube - Progressive Education in the 1940s
This video presents a positive view of progressive education although it begins with a parent complaining that children are not learning the fundamentals.
Real World Math
This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text. Google Earth is the dynamic tool that will be used to accomplish this.
An ABC book - Play at Powerhouse
This ABC book is made up of objects in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. Some date back over a century whilst others you may recognise or even have in your own 'collection'. We will be adding more objects over time.
If a programming language was a boat…
This makes no sense, since one doesn’t normally make water vehicles in Turing, the programming language.
Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials
Whether you want to put Windows on a diet in a virtual machine or you want to get Windows up and running all snappy-like on older hardware, you've got a handful of excellent and free options at your disposal.
Upgrade from Vista to Windows XP
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal.
Windows shocker: 67% would buy XP over Vista
Is Windows Vista the biggest PR failure in Microsoft's history? I don't remember the criticism being this bad a year after XP was launched, nor any of its predecessors.
Video on OER via Greasemonkey, Trailfire and others
The past 2 years have been marked by a strong increase in the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement and in Open Educational Licenses. This10 minute show displays some nice uses of client-side tools to find and share information with Google etc.
FuturePD Home
Tools for the digital age that will facilitate collaboration and communication. This is an exciting time to be an educator. Make sure you have the skills and the pedagogy to maximise the effectiveness of tools like these.
UNE - Education - Professional Development Lecture Series 2007
Podcasts for pre-service teachers
Cold War 2.0 - open source software on every computer in Russia by 2009
Sputnik's launch got everyone's attention, galvanized America and pushed us all forward. Will the installation of free, open source software on every computer in Russia catch the attention of American legislators?
Little Things that make Apple great
People who use Apple products, talk about them differently to those that don’t. You don’t hear people talk about loving their Dells, or their Toshibas, or their Acers, they just use them to “get the job done”, usually in a fairly detached sort of
25 of The World’s Most Interesting Animals | Quedat
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